Question

I would like to set a timeout on an execution in php. I want to loop through and I want to cut at 5 for example because of the execution time I set.

ini_set('max_execution_time',2);
for ($i=0;$i<10;$i++){
    echo time();
    echo ' i:'.$i;
    echo "\n";
    echo "\n";
}

would like to give it a limit.

Answer 1

Using ini_set('max_execution_time',2); would affect the whole PHP script and may cause

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 2 second exceeded

You can simple add your time calculation to your for loop instead;

$maxTime = 2; // sec ;
$start = time();
echo "<pre>";
for($i = 0; $i < 10, (time() - $start) < $maxTime; $i ++) {
    echo time();
    echo ' i:' . $i;
    echo "\n";
    echo "\n";
    sleep(1); // slow the script
}

Output

1354287243 i:0

1354287244 i:1